MAXFIELD, Helen

1980 - ?

As Helen Elizabeth Watkins, she was born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire in 1980. Helen graduated with B.A. (hons) degree in Art from Lancaster University in 2001 and moved to Suffolk where she studied under Jude Lockie. She married in Suffolk in 2004, Kenneth Maxfield and now paints under the name of Helen Maxfield. A printmaker, specialising in hand burnished linocuts created in her studio, near Needham Market, Suffolk and is also a painter in acrylic and watercolour. Her current interests are familiar subject matters of animals, plants & flowers, landscapes, and people and tends to swing between lino prints and paintings, with inspiration normally evolving through the process of observational drawing and developing these drawings into linocut designs. She also runs untutored life drawing sessions in the local Ringshall Village Hall. Helen is a member of the Suffolk Craft Society, 12pm Printmakers and of Suffolk Open Studios from 7 North Acres, Willisham, near Ipswich and exhibits at Art On the Prom at Felixstowe; Mill Tye Gallery, Sudbury; Sentinel Gallery, Wivenhoe; Craftco, Southwold; St Mary's Church Debenham; 13th Ipswich Sea Scouts Exhibitions; Minories, Colchester; Ejart Creative, Woodbridge; Come Hither Gallery, Holbrook and elsewhere. Helen also takes commission work.
Website: http://www.helenmaxfield.com

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